ril 11. 192S 



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 resent a clear 

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 of the survey 



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April 11, IWS 



CO-OP HATCHERY IN 

 EDGAR COUNTY WORKS, 

 THE MEMBERS DECLARE 



The Ofinoi* Agncultiirml Aaaodation Record 



Egg* PaM Through Farm BureMi 

 liic«d>ator; Baby Chicks Go 

 Back to Home Farm Brooder 



Over in Edgar county, Illinois, 

 the first county in the state to be 

 placed under federal accreditation 

 as free from bovine tuberculosis, 

 farm bureau members have estab- 

 lished what is believed to be the 

 first and only co-operative egg 

 hatchery in the United States. 



In Paris, the county seat, is the 

 office of Enos Waters, farm adviser, 

 and the hatchery is located in the 

 basement of the ofBce. System and 

 efficiency was the first thing that 

 struck us as we dropped into the 

 dug-out. The egg hatchery filled 

 one room. One hundred eighty 

 eggs to an incubator, 10 rows of 

 incubators to the row, two-deep, 

 and three tiers straight up and 

 down. 



Edgw County Strong In Poultry 

 The poultry business is one of the 

 big farming activities in Edgar 

 county, lining up favorably in value 

 with the county's hog industry. 

 But, as in every other county, white 

 diarrhea has made its inroads on 

 the flocks. Much progress, how- 

 ever, has been made in stamping 

 out the disease through the appli- 

 cation of the blood test, on which 

 basis the flocks are culled. And 

 flock masters in Edgar county are 

 confident that the disease will 

 eventually check out, at least in 

 flocks where good care of henneries 

 is standard, and cleanliness the 

 watchword. 



For many years the need of an 

 organization was felt through which 

 the problems of poultry raising and 

 marketing could be solved. Such 

 an organization was perfected last 

 summer, calling itself the Edgar 

 County Poultry Marketing Associa- 

 tion. The program laid out by the 

 16 members is as follows: 



1. Each member's flock is thor- 

 oughly culled by a man trained in 

 the work to cull, not only from the 

 standpoint of breed characteristics, 

 but also from that of production. 



2. The flocks are first tested for 

 white diarrhea, using both the 

 blood and the intradermal tests. 



Holds 10,800 Eggs 



3. The eggs from those fiocks — 

 averaging 500 to 1,000 — are 

 hatched in the mammoth incubator 

 holding 10,800 eggs. The hatchery 

 is valued at }2,200 and is the prop- 

 erty of the organization. Every 

 known precaution is taken to pre- 

 vent the spread of any disease in 

 the hatching process. Hatched 

 cripples are cast out. 



4. The excess breeding stock, 

 baby chicks and hatching eggs from 

 these fiocks will be marketed 

 through the organization. All poul- 

 try supplies needed by its members 

 will be purchased co-operatively 

 and it is hoped that the selling of 

 commercial eggs and poultry may 

 become a function of the organiza- 

 tion if the membership is increased 

 sufficiently .to give the necessary 

 volume to this part of -the enter- 

 prise. 



All eggs hatching out perfect go 

 back to the flocks from whence they 

 came. In normal seasons the ex- 

 pectancy of matured pullets in a 

 consignment of 1,000 eggs Is placed 

 at about 250, the cockerels being 

 sent off to market. Only purebred 

 stock is eligible. 



The hatchery was installed in the 

 farm bureau office in January and 

 on February 1, the first consign- 

 ment of eggs was received, these 

 hatching out by February 23. The 

 members hope to take care of 60,- 

 000 eggs during the season. This 

 leaves an average of 4,000 eggs to 

 the member. A manager has been 

 hired to spend all his time on the 

 care of the hatchery and the chicks 

 until delivered to the owners. 



Paris C)onvenlent to All Members 



No member is over 24 miles from 

 Paris and so all the eggs are 

 brought in by car. A limit of 10 

 days is set in which eggs must be 

 delivered at the office after being 

 laid. Non-members desiring unused 

 space in the hatchery pay at the 

 rate of four cents an egg. 



Preferred stock amounting to 

 )5,000 is provided for, on which 

 six per cent interest is allowed. 

 Profits accruing in addition are to 

 be prorated out to members and 

 others according to patronage. 



Co-op Hatchery Stands Alone 

 Adviser Waters declares that the 

 hatchery is the only co-operative 

 one In the state and that it is 

 booked for success, as indications 

 already point. The association 

 hopes to grow in membership and 

 in volume of business, as the hatch- 

 ery is to be enlarged when more 

 space can be provided. Eventually 

 it is hoped, a separate building will 

 be erected to house several units 

 of hatcheries. Officers of the Ed- 

 gar County Poultry Marketing As- 

 sociation, which controls the incu- 

 bator proposition, are: James Scott, 

 president and manager; C. R. Bo- 

 land, Secretary-treasurer; and Clin- 

 ton Delap, Fred Gumm and Harlan 

 See, directors. 



Pages 



LA.C.A. NUIMBERS 



30,000 MEMBERS 



At the beginning of the year, 

 membership in the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Co-operatives Association, 

 J ^^ farmers' co-operative au- 

 I Sll diting and business advis- 

 *"" ory service agency, num- 

 bered 117. After slightly more 

 than three months, this figure has 

 jumped to 160, according to Ver- 

 non Vaniman, field organizer. . 



The last four co-ops to join the 

 ranks are the Will County Farm 

 Bureau, Joliet; the Stephenson 

 County Farm Bureau, Freeport; 

 the Pearl City Farmers' Graifl and 

 Coal Company; and the Pearl City 

 Farmers' Co-operative Mercantile 

 Company. 



"This is the first instance," says 

 Geo. R. Wicker, the manager, 

 "where a co-operative store has 

 joined our ranks, and now we have 

 every kind of farmers' co-operative 

 concern in our organization. The 

 total membership now numbers 

 30.000 farmers." 



Here the eggs — thousands of them — get their airing every day; 



MANY COUNTIES JUMP 

 FARM REUEF QUOTA 



(Continued from page 1.) 



nark % 95.00 



Clinton 800.00 



Cook 259.50 



DeKalb 20.00 



DeWitt 5?9.5» 



DuPagre 2.455.S4 



Edwards r 1.555.00 



Effingham 500.00 



Ford , 2.000.00 



Gallatin S38.24 



Greene 126.00 



Grundy 2.8S7.19 



Hanrock 2,500,00 



Henderson 225.00 



Henry .....' 5.00 



Jefferson 287,35 



Jersey 145.73 



Jo Daviess 1.310.42 



Johnson 131.50 



Kane 3.041.14 



Kankakee 3.215.30 



Kendall 2.894.05 



Lake 2.100.00 



LaSalle 2.984.90 



Lawrence 2,800.00 



Lee 3,107.58 



Livingston 1.811.52 



Macon 329.54 



Madison 1.650.00 



Marion ^ 179.10 



Marshall-Putnam 574.50 



McDonough 562.50 



McHenry 597 55 



McLean 2,213.22 



Menard 689.50 



Mercer 503.20 



Monroe 24.50 



Ogle 2.784.76 



Piatt 52.50 



Pike 833.50 



Randolph 1.00 



Richland 2.622.47 



Sangamon 3.000.00 



Scott 853.10 



Shelby 1.222.39 



Stark 193.00 



Stephenson 1.700.00 



Tazewell 1.708.45 



Warren 1,854.89 



Whiteside 3.562.81 



Will 1,946.40 



Winnebago 1.000.00 



Woodford 4,205.66 



Sears-Roebuck 25.000.00 



Chicago Drovers Jour 115.90 



Porter Co., Ind 5.00 



Ill-Mo. Dairy Coop. Assn 17.00 



Prairie Farmer 1.205.45 



Strauss Bros 160.00 



Hoyleton Chamber of Com... 50.00 

 Misc 17.00 



J103.732.l- 



The following communications have 

 been received from counties which 

 report activity in the drive but which 

 have not yet sent in funds collected. 



"Peoria county grub stake relief 

 fund now totals $3,289.56. Late re- 

 ports will probably increase this to 

 thlrty-flve hundred. Radio certainly 

 has been large factor In successful 

 drive in this county." — Wilfred Shaw, 

 farm adviser, Peoria county. 



"At the regular monthly meeting 

 of our executive committee Friday 

 night. April 3rd. plans were worked 

 out to canyasfl the entire county in 

 behalf of the Relief Fund. A team 

 captain was selected for each of the 

 ten townships and each captain will 

 appoint jfr«m three to five men to 

 assist hlBi. in making sure no farmer 

 misses a trance to contribute. 



"X believe I am safe in predicting 

 that Crawford County will exceed 

 her quota. This coming week wtH be 

 devoted to thorough preparation and 

 publicity, the following week will be 

 spent in solicitation." — Henry F. 

 Crosby, farm adviser. 



"We are working on the grubstake 

 fund and while the response so far 

 as we have gone is splendid we, are 

 not in a position to say how much 

 money Iroquois county will raisd but 

 we are optimistic in believing that 

 we will raise our $2,000. In view of 

 the fact that other organizations 

 have made solicitations in a number 

 of communities this worlc is a little 

 slow. We have about $400 raised 

 now and we believe our efforts are 

 just getting under way." — L. W. Wise, 

 farm adviser. Iroquois county. 



"We have been greatly hampered 

 in getting the accurate survey com- 

 pleted owing to the fact that good 

 men were not available. We are now 

 compiling the last of the figures and 

 hope to be able to send you results 

 tomorrow." — C. J. Thomas, farm ad- 

 viser, Jackson county. 



"We have raised $2,809 here and 

 sent to the Red Cross at Chicago to 

 help the unfortunate people who suf- 

 fered losses and injuries in the cy- 

 clone. If. after we look the situation 

 over, we find that we should raise 

 more money for this purpose, we will 

 do so." — O. M. McGhee, farm adviser. 

 Massac county. 



'"Moultrie County Farm Bureau has 

 over fifteen hundred dollars for the 

 tornado relief fund and Is still go- 

 ing." — C. C. Turner, farm adviser, 

 Moultrie county. 



The St. Clair County Farm Bureau 

 is working, according to B. W. Till- 

 man, adviser. 



"Henry county has $264.10 on hand 

 for the farm relief committee and 

 there is more than that in the county 

 that has not been turned in yet. 

 Tuesday is election day and we ex- 

 pect to-«et In touch with more people 

 then." says J. W. Whisenand, farm 

 adviser.. 



LAW PLATFORM IN 



CONTINUED FAVOR 



(Continued from pagre 1.) 

 The Tice bill, over which legisla- 

 tors wete treated to first class dairy 

 arguments as was reported in the 

 last Record was advanced to third 

 reading on April 1. The stage is all 

 set for it to pass. It was amended 

 considerably in committee, but 

 mostly to change minor details of 

 phraseology. One amendment of 

 importance, however, does not make 

 the requirement for retests on 

 grade cattle to become effective un- 

 til July 1, 1927. Retests on pure- 

 bred cattle are required when the 

 bill becomes effective July 1, 1925. 

 Retests on all cattle will be re- 

 quired when 75 per cent of the 

 herds in a county are signed up for 

 the t. b. test. Retests are also re- 



quired in modified accredited coun- 

 ties. A general recodification of 

 the old, jumbled laws is also re- 

 quired, as well as tagging and 

 branding reactors. The sale of se- 

 rum is placed under the control of 

 the state department of agricul- 

 ture. All herds must l>e tested 

 when 75 per cent of the herds of a 

 county have been signed up for 

 testing. 



Need (S.OOO.OOO 



Unless sufficient money is pro- 

 vided for carrying on the campaign 

 of tuberculosis eradication, this bill 

 will lose much of its effectiveness. 

 Senator Barr has introduced a bill 

 for a three million dollar appropria- 

 tion tor the two-year period which 

 is needed badly as a companion 

 measure to the Tice bill. Senators 

 and representatives, and even the 

 Governor, should be acquainted 

 with the way farmers feel about 

 this appropriation if it goes through 

 without being pared down. The 

 legislative committee urges that 

 farm bureau members write their 

 senators and representatives on ail 

 three of the I. A. A. bills. 



The I. A. A. also favors a biH in- 

 troduced by Representative -Mc- 

 Carthy of Kane county, which re- 

 quires milk dealers to be licensed 

 and bonded for the protection of 

 dairymen who seli them milk. 



PROMISES NEW DAY 



IN EGG MARKETING 

 i I AS PLANS RIPEN 



LA.A. Poultry and Egg Market- 

 ing Director Now Ready to 

 Project the Proposition 



A movement is on foot which it 

 is hoped will do much to improve 

 the present system of egg produc- 

 tion and marketing throughout Illi- 

 nois. 



The I. A. A. poultry and egg mar- 

 keting department is ready with a 

 plan which F. A. Gougler, director, 

 will project to Farm Bureaus 

 throughout the state. Gougler has 

 been working for a considerable 

 time on a plan which would prove 

 feasible and now be has one that 

 will meet all needs. Here it is: 



The state will be divided up into 

 shipping districts about the size of 

 the average county. Where pos- 

 sible, each district will be deter- 

 mined by the location of good roads 

 surrounding it. The district also 

 will be limited in area to include, 

 on the average, from 15 to 20 "as- 

 sembling points" — where eggs are 

 to be delivered by farmers, and 

 from where a "district truck" will 

 gather the cases to haul to central 

 shipping points. 



In each of the communities or 

 assembling points, a man and wom- 

 an are to be chosen by the local 

 farm bureau in the district. The 

 20 or 30 people thus selected will 

 meet weekly or semi-monthly for 

 discussing the outline as planned 

 by Gougler, and each meeting will 

 include a discussion on a well-de- 

 fined project, previously reviewed 

 and studied by all the parties con- 

 cerned. These discussions, as sug- 

 gested by Gougler, will be pursued 

 in somewhat the following order: 

 (1) Outline for studying egg 

 grades; (2) egg packages and pack- 

 ing eggs; (3) fattening and mar- 

 keting poultry; (4) including bat- 

 tery feeding of live poultry; (5) 

 meeting quality demands by the 

 producers (eggs and poultry); (6) 

 important points to know about the 

 proposed marketing plan for Illi- 

 nois; (7) collecting poultry infor- 

 mation from respective communi- 

 ties; (8) financing a poultry and 

 egg marketing project; (9) legal 

 aspects of marketing; (10) history 

 of co-operatiVe poultry and egg 

 marketing and of agricultural edu- 

 cation; (11) cold storage facil- 

 ities; (12) accounting systems; 



(13) transportation problems; and 



(14) federating district problems. 

 This' makes 14 discussObns in all, 

 and the<.arrangement may be shift- 

 ed to suit individual districts. 



These "schools" will be held with 

 the assistance of the farm adviser. 

 When called upon, Gougler will be 

 available to explain the entire plan. 

 There are a goodly number of ref- 

 erences bearing on the discussions, 

 as prepared by the director. What- 

 ever texts are to l>e used, will be 

 held by the Farm Bureau office. 

 Pamphlets and bulletins will be 

 made available to each person in 

 the discussion. 



LOWDEN'S SPEAKING 

 DATES MUDDLED IN 

 nRE CAUSES CHANGE 



Many Local Community Clubs 

 Report Meeting* to Be Held 

 to Receive WLS Program 



The first meeting of the Midwest 

 Radio Community Club will be held 

 Wednesday, April 15 rather than 

 April 24, as an- 

 nounced in the 

 last REroBD. 



This change 

 was found neces- 

 sary because for- 

 m e r Governor 

 Lowden. the 

 principal speaker 

 of the^ evening, 

 got his dates 

 mixed due to a 

 fire on his farm 

 near Oregon, III., 

 which destroyed a 

 PraBk O. Lonilra large part Of his 

 records. He has found that he will 

 have to be in Washington. D. C. on 

 April 23 and of course cannot gel 

 back to Cbicaco to take part in a 

 program April 24. Consequently, 

 the date has been shifted to April 

 15. the time being the same as be- 

 fore, 7:30 to 9:30. 



No doubt this change will cause 

 considerable shifting with commu- 

 nity clubs since many have signi- 

 fied their intention of holding a 

 meeting that night with a powerful 

 radio receiver tuned on WLS to 

 furnish the entertaintnent. Radio 

 dealers have been found willing to 

 loan good receiving sets for the 

 event to many community clubs 

 which do not have radios of their 

 own. 



Invite Your XeiKtibor Over 

 Those farmers who own radios 

 and who will not be taking part in 

 a community meeting that night 

 are urged to invite their neighbors 

 over for the evening. 



An addition to the program has 

 been made since announced last 

 time. It is Frank Evans, the new 

 marketing counsel of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation who real- 

 ly functions as secretary but pre- 

 fers the other title. 



Farmers and others in Illinois' 

 sister states — Michigan, Indiana 

 and Iowa will also be in attendance 

 when the first program of the Mid- 

 west~Radi« Community Club comes 

 on the alrij^pril 15. The program 

 is being announced in farm and 

 daily papers in these states. 



An attempt to lead community 

 singing over the radio will be made 

 which is thought to be the first time 

 ever tried. J. H. Checkley. farm 

 adviser in Logan county, is the 

 leader. . 



The program follows: 



Tlie Tm-o-How Prograai 



Singing of "America." Community 

 sineing; led by J. H. Checkley, Logan 

 county farm adviser. 



Opening of meeting by Sam H. 

 Thompson, president of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association. Greeting to 

 Illinois and Midwest farmers. 



Treasurer's report on standing of 

 I. A. A, by R. A. Cowleft. treasurer of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Asaociatlon. 



Secretary's report on progress of 

 I. A. A. work for farmers of Illinois. 

 — By (Jeo. A. Fox. 



Kane County Farm Bureau Quartet. 



(Greeting to farmers of Michigan 

 from M. U .\«on. president of Michl- 

 pan Farm Hureau Federation. 



"Greeting lo farmers of Indiana from 

 Wm. H. Settle, president. Indiana 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



•Jreetinir to farmers of Iowa from 

 Charles E. Hearst, president. Iowa 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



Mes^ge from Arthur C. Page. «dl- 

 tor of Orange Judd ILLINOIS FARM- 

 KR. 



Message frcm C. V. Gregory, editor 

 of PRAIRIE FARMER. 



How-I>o-You-Do song on speakers 

 by Ford an.- Glen. 



Introdu .on of former Governor 

 Ix>wden by President Thompson. 



Kane County Farm Bureau Quar- 

 tet. 



Address by Ex-Governor Leirden 

 on "Co-operative Marketing." Talk ' 

 to last SO-40 minutes. 



t^ommunity singing — "Star Si>angled 

 Banner." 



LISTEN' IX! 



WLS: April II, 12:J(I P. M. A. A. 

 Olsen. "Warren County Farm Bureau 

 live stock shipping association." 

 April 14. 12:J0 P. M. J. H. Checkley. 

 "When farmers get together In Logan 

 county;" 8:40 P. M.. "Accomplishments 

 of the Ixigan County Farm Bureau." 

 April 20. 12:30 P. M.. T. H KoberU. 

 "Clean farms and high yields." April 

 21. 12:S0 P. M.. I. A. Madden. "Testing 

 sesd corn for tSisease in Sangamon 

 county:" 8:40 P. M.. "Basentials In 

 grain marketing as the fanner aeea 

 it " May 8. 8:><i P. M.. R. F. Karr. 

 iroquois. execirtive .-'immitteeman for 

 I8th district; "The farmer's niche." 



Boys and girls club work has been 

 made a major project In the Adams 

 County Farm Bureau program (or 

 1>2S. The goal Is at least IM mem- 

 bers. 



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